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C4AI Aya Expanse 8B

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Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026

C4AI Aya Expanse 8B is a Cohere model released on 23 Oct 2024. Pricing: Open weights under CC-BY-NC-4.0 — non-commercial. Its context window is 8K tokens. It ranks #341 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1223, read 3 Nov 2026). Source: huggingface.co.

Cohere Labs' Aya Expanse 8B, a multilingual open-weight language model published on Hugging Face under CC-BY-NC-4.0, which does not permit commercial use. Access to the weights requires accepting Cohere's terms on Hugging Face.

Pricing & specs checkedSource: vendor documentation · checked Oct 29, 2026LMArena: 1223 Elo (rank 341) · source · retrieved Nov 3, 2026
Pricing

Open weights under CC-BY-NC-4.0 — non-commercial

Context

8K tokens

LMArena Elo

1223

LMArena rank

#341

Full Specifications

Open weights under CC-BY-NC-4.0 — non-commercial
Identity
DeveloperCohere
ReleasedOct 2024
StatusOpen weights
LicenceCC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial)
Self-hostableYes — gated weights at CohereLabs/aya-expanse-8b
Capacity
Context window8K tokens
Capability
Vision inNo — text in, text out
Access
Fine-tuningYes — open weights permit it
Measured quality
LMArena Elo1223 (checked Nov 2026)
LMArena rankRank 341